Verse 1: Male

Your coffee cools beside the morning news

You ask me twice if I got home all right

I smile and say there’s nothing left to lose

Then watch you move a little slower tonight

Verse 2: Female

The hallway holds the height marks from the years

A crooked line where my small hand once stood

You hid your tiredness behind a thousand chores

And made a little room feel like it could

Pre-Chorus: Both

I thought that time was something we could spend

I never saw the ending in the bend

Chorus: Both

So stay a little longer at the table

Tell me every story I forgot

Let me hold your hands while they are able